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I’ve put up another depressing culturemonkey post that functions as a kind of follow-up to last week’s, thinking about the way 1973 can be seen as the high-water mark for production-oriented...
View ArticleYes, You Finally Made a Monkey
Two new culturemonkey posts, each one sillier and more perverting of the site’s original mission statement than the last. Real culturemonkey posts to resume once we get these end-of-the-semester papers...
View ArticleGood News for culturemonkeys (All about the 1950s)
Never say Hollywood can’t learn from its mistakes. The producers have figured out how to please everyone: maintain earnestness regardless of the inherent absurdity of the genre, be ‘topical’ by way of...
View ArticleSunday Morning Post-Rapture Links
* Pharyngula, buzzkill, makes the whole “Rapture” craze this weekend seem a lot less funny. At least we’ll always have alternative_eschatology.jpg. * The headline reads: “Utah law makes acting sexy...
View ArticleThe Lost Half-Century
It’s not even the fact that median household income—the income of the American household in the middle of the income distribution—is now back to the level it was at in 1996: about $49,500 in...
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